First of all apologies for my earlier post which I accidently submitted before finishing the question... I'm not spamming :)

This seems to be a source of much confusion judging by the amount of similar titles on the subject, however after reading everything I could find on static files with the django development server i've almost given up hope!

So my static files are served from C:/Users/Dan/seminarWebsite/static/, in which i have sub folders for images, css etc. For simplicity lets just say I want an image to show on my website homepage (an easy task I would have hoped!)

However only a broken link appears and at this address: http://127.0.0.1:8000/homepage/images/vision.jpeg; and i don't think it should be at that address (homepage is the url name of the page the staic image file is being called to)

I now have that URL for the image location so I'm getting somewhere thank you! But it says that the 'images\vision.jpeg' cannot be found. I am using the RequesContext and do have static context processer linked up. My view: def homepage(request): seminars = Seminar.objects.order_by('date') return render_to_response('homepage.html', {'seminarData': seminars}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
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dannymilsomFeb 7 '12 at 23:48

Use the --insecure option to force serving of static files with the
staticfiles app even if the DEBUG setting is False. By using this you
acknowledge the fact that it's grossly inefficient and probably
insecure. This is only intended for local development, should never be
used in production and is only available if the staticfiles app is in
your project's INSTALLED_APPS setting.